Words we don't use any more

Slummock.
Stop slummocking around on the couch. If you're tired, go to bed!

Gosh!
Crumbs!
What the Dickens?
Up in Annie’s room behind the clock (that’s where something lost would be according to my Dad)
‘Push your ears back’. (Wash your face)
Pig bin - kitchen scraps collected weekly
Beechams powder wrapped in a fold of paper
Cardinal red polish used on doorsteps
Vanity case. I got one for my 21st 🤦‍♀️
Hair Tonic. My Dad used it. Not sure why as he returned from war almost bald apart from a frill of hair around the edge 😂

My dad used to say "That's a nice drop of Moey" when he had a drink (quite often home-brew which may have been Moey but not nice)

Gran used to say "it's in slinnucks" when a coat or pair of trousers was worn beyond repair.

We also used to call calves "Mogs".
& "Mardy" for in a bad mood (although they still use that now in some parts I think)

Mum & Dad also used to say "Ally, ally" when they wanted us to hurry up - obvs from the french, but they didn't speak French.

What a lovely thread! I wrote down all the words that were common in my childhood( 1950s) and discarded half of them as the have already been mentioned. This is the remainder-

Looking glass - mirror. My mother would ask us to clean all glasses, meaning mirrors.

Blacklead. She was also very keen on black leading the stove. Horrible black stuff that was difficult to wash off your hands.

Trap. My uncle used to visit in a pony and trap , in which he gave us rides. Never heard of a trap since.

Nylons. When I started wearing these, they always had seams. It was a great effort to get the seams straight and we were always asking everyone “Are my seams straight?”.

Thole. If we had toothache or any other pain, we would be told to thole it and only if it persisted , would we get to visit the dentist. Same with any other childhood illness.

Strand. This was a long sandy beach.

Spinster.
I'm not as green aa I'm cabbage looking.

I remember very salty bacon often being described as being "As salty as a cut off Lot's wife's arse." Later I discovered that it was a mis-quote from Ulysses where it is the beef that is salt.

On the shelf. Used to be said of a woman over 30 who never married.

Sitting there like cheese at fourpence
Copperin’ up (looking in your purse for the last few coins so you could pay)
As throng as Throp’s wife (throng meaning being busy)
It’s being so cheerful as keeps you going (from the show ITMA, I think)

Rainhood

Pacamac (spelt wrong I think)

Anorak?

Duffel coat anyone?

Grannynannywanny

A car coat.

When we had our first car in the 1960’s my lovely dad had a car coat. It was basically a long jacket but at the time was specifically called a car coat.

Worn with his driving gloves he looked the part in his Ford Cortina 😊

He wasn’t Gene Hunt was he?😁

🤣

My dad turned his normal every day jacket into a smoking jacket. He was smoking his pipe in the garden and Mum called him in for dinner. He put the still very hot pipe in his jacket pocket and his pocket lining started to smoulder 😆

I always thought a smoking jacket looked very vulnerable to being spoiled by any dropped hot cigarette ash. Weren't they usually very fine fabric, not at all hardwearing?

How about a smoking jacket?

Apparently "a reefer jacket is an officer's or chief petty officer's pea coat, with the same design but bearing gold buttons and epaulettes."
So now we know!
I certainly hadn't remembered that!

I had a reefer jacket back in the day and it looked remarkably like what is now called a pea coat. People smoked reefers too, I believe they contained cannabis.

Yes, yogitree - my oldest son has some!
I'm sure he only wears them when the top's down!

Gallivanting

NotSpaghetti

Of course when everyone knew what a car coat was the heating in cars was generally poor.
We used to keep rugs in ours for long journeys. Probably out of habit we still have a rug in the boot of one of them.

And Driving Gloves! I remember getting these for my 17th Birthday.

Weeny

Of course when everyone knew what a car coat was the heating in cars was generally poor.
We used to keep rugs in ours for long journeys. Probably out of habit we still have a rug in the boot of one of them.